Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics

Looking at material flows, industrial and societal metabolism and their implications for the economy, this book provides radical perspectives on how the global economy should use natural resources in intelligent ways that maximise well-being without destroying life-supporting ecosystems...

In response to toughening environmental legislation, national and supra-national environmental product policies and growing customer demands, this book provides both analysis and case studies on why and how companies are developing new products and services to fit "triple-bottom-line" expectations...

The Sustainable Solutions series examines Portland State University, sharing best practice in community-engaged teaching and research with a sustainability focus. This volume looks at how barriers between disciplines and communities have been overcome, and introduces themes shaping PSU’s work: justi..

Sustainable Solutions shares best practice in community-engaged teaching and sustainability-focused research at Portland State University. This volume explores how these partnerships work in practice, analyzing 13 projects to offer pragmatic guidance, critical reflections and inspiration for creatin..

Specifically written as a text to augment traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses on strategic management, this book fills the need for a strategy text that gives full attention to sustainability and environmental protection. With a chapter-by-chapter case study exemplifying many o..

Based on the evaluation of the results of a five-year inter-ministerial programme of the Dutch Sustainable Technology Development Group, this is an examination of which technologies might be able to become more eco-efficient, and how they may be able to do so...

Speaks with resounding clarity to the living challenges, the real dilemmas, and haunting questions of CEOs everywhere...

A result of a collaboration between experts from business, design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy. This title examines what sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is. It provides a review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of ap..

Focuses on change towards sustainable personal mobility based on implemented cases analysed from a system perspective. This work examines how changes can be realized so that consumers and end-users on average will start to reduce their need for mobility, or start to make use of more sustainable mobi..

Focuses on providing answers to the question of how food production and consumption systems can stay within the limits of the carrying capacity of our natural environment. This work also considers the challenges of food security and nutrition in the context of sustainability and a growing world popu..

Buildings have a long lifetime, and so they are a major target for any structural changes in consumption patterns. Conversely, long lifetimes come with associated strong inertia. This book examines the opportunities to influence energy consumption in housing and buildings, and provides options for i..

This book provides a novel systems-thinking approach to solving complex problems in socio-political and business environments. It is a must-read for any leader or strategist looking for real-world solutions to policy challenges...